Was talking to a friend today about some public land we'd like to try we discussed something different that might work for crows.I've heard and tried different things..French fries as bait,using dead animals,owl decoys...we discussed using old turkey wing feathers and a Jake decoy. I know they don't get along I just want more input before I try... thoughts,suggestions? Anyone try anything like this before?
Yes, we over-analyze, but we're crow hunters. In NY, baiting is illegal.
However, yes, I made a "happy meal." Does it work? I don't know. Also, have gut piles. Do they work? I don't know.
Last year, I started WWIII between the crows and the turkeys. However, only the turkeys came to play. I had two turkey decoys in my spread, and ran "Crows Attacking Turkey" on my Primos Alpha Dogg. (Sound purchased on line as an add-on for $2)
A dozen turkeys came out of the woods, staged up in the corn stubble and appeared to be having a huddle. Once they broke from the huddle, they all charged my spread making all kinds of racket. I tried to get video but was too slow. They came into the island that I was hiding in and checked out my caller. Once they realized it was a hoax, they all wandered off.
One of the most hilarious things I've see ever while hunting.
Someone unknown was sharing our blind when we were not crow shooting at the time. They left behind some flambeau foam turkey decoys so we set them to the side of the spread and man oh man did they enhance our shooting that day! In a rare day for us the sky was filled with crows as far as we could see and initially way up there about 2,000 feet or so but i heard them andbegan calling and when they came down it lookedimpossible-thought i was dreaming. But the turkeys helped! All this before the local farms all dried up and the necessary food supply was no longer available to hold the great flocks in fallas today they do not follow that particularpath in such a huge number!
Things are so bad now that if you see group anywhere try to hit them along their path as tomorrow they will no longer be there by the end of the day!
I was scouting for crows and saw about a hundred or so in this cornfield but at the marsh edge so i knew they were not going to hang around trying to pull up frozen corn and wouldn't be there that afternoon and they certainly weren't! One thing i hate is when the entire flock of that farm comes over all at once as they will not return that day and in fact might just leave the county altogether! At another location further north I shot four times and missed but because I forgot to compensate fro the wind and the shotgun was lent to me and this through off my timing considerably!Keep that in mind when hunting crows-use the gun you know better than the back of your hand! If you keep two shotguns make sure they are identical in balance or start missing!
I wish all shotguns handled like that old single barrel single shot shotgun I use to have. I killed more crows with that than the pump I used the year before!
Okay so i learned but you really should have multiple shot shotguns and at one time in my area a double just wasn't enough not to knock any one who uses one of course-I am no hypocrite and the way things are going last fall I might as well again!
A note of irony: Obama did more for the gun industry than any single gun organization collectively or singly ever did-they have made record sales selling guns since obama has been in office! How very ironic!
